Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-04-01


Writhed on the floor Of the votunda The
| women. who composed with their children
the largest portion of the number, com
planned of the bad treatment, and said
they could not get food and water enough
during the voyage.
Mrs. Dora Bennett, young married
woman, living at Columbiana, O., was alb
Quoted by three men and carried away.
! When found she was almost naked and
partially deranged.
A Nova Scotia burglar named STANLEY
Steele tried to rob bank at Antagonist,
hut Teller Currier grappled with him, and
though shot twice. dangerously, succeeded
in preventing the robbers escape.
Political and Personal.
! MIR. Powderly warns the Knights of La
Dor that money cannot be voted for election
purposes. -.
Senator Beck says that Blaine, Allison
and Sherman are the Republican candidates
for President, and Cleveland and Hill the
Democratic.
| Robert Nelson is the United Labor candi
date for mayor of Chicago, fact that will
cut quite figure in electing Roche the Re-
publican nominee.
There is no longer any doubt but that
Secretary Fairchild has been informed by
| the President that he is to be the secretary
Of the treasury after April l.
Senator Sherman who is making political
speeches in the South, spoke at Nashville on
the 24th, and the public understanding is
| that he is again candidate for President
Lawrence Barrett contradicts the report
that his daughter is to marry Edwin Booth,
who is old enough to be the young lady, s
grandfather, famous as he may be as an
actir. +.
OF the two Republican members Of the in
terstate commission, Judge Cooley voted
for Cleveland in 1884 and Mr.. Walker,
Senator Edmunds' protege, did not vote
for Blaine.
Maurice Grau, the operate manager, has
been thrown into jail for debt, at Quebec,
Canada, and refused bail, His Canadian
tour was a sad failure, owing in some part
to the severe weather.
Clerk Adams has prepared his roll call of
the Fiftieth congress, but still lacks official
information of the election of eight men,
has put them on the list expecting to receive
the credentials in due time.
John A. Logan, Jr., Son Of the dead Sena-
tor, and Miss Edith Andrews, daughter of
Chauncey NJ. Andrews, I, Youngstown, O.,
were married at noon at the residence Of
the BRIDES father. Among the presents was
okoo0 1T frnrS hvsid osS foil
Saying he'd ne'er consent, consented.
The Chicago Democrats nominated their
"best Mayor" Carter II. Harrison, for
sixth term on Wednesday. Harrison, made
a speech declining, but afterward came be-
fore the convention and accepted their NOM
| ination. The contest between Roche, the
Republican candidate and Harrison will be
, watched with interest, 81
Mrs. Logan is having an interesting dis
pute with the officials Of the bureau of en-
! craving and printing at Washington. She
| was requested to send them a photograph
of eulogies delivered in congress after the
death of her husband. The photograph
came in due time, and the officials were
astonished to find that 1T represented him
as he appeared twenty years, ago: Mrs.
Logan has peremptorily declined to furnish
a later picture of the Senator The publ
cation Of the book is therefore delayed and
may be deferred for months.
President Cleveland mas addressed a
letter to Mrs. J. R. Roberts, widow of the
late President of Liberia, who is seeking
Monrovia, in which he saws: Liberia is SO
distinctly the outgrowth Of the kindly and
! generous sentiments OF the people of the
4 United States that everything which per.